{"id":44013,"date":"2021-06-09T11:38:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T08:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44013"},"modified":"2025-08-31T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:04:05","slug":"lavrov-cryptocurrencies-will-inevitably-play-a-significant-role-in-international-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/lavrov-cryptocurrencies-will-inevitably-play-a-significant-role-in-international-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov: cryptocurrencies will inevitably play a significant role in international settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies will, in time, be used more actively in international settlements, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/11603457\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I think the time will inevitably come when cryptocurrencies will play a very significant role, occupying a very significant share in international settlements,&#8221; said the foreign minister.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also noted that Russia does not plan to abandon the use of the dollar completely, although it is aiming to dedollarise the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Foreign Ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-foreign-ministry-signals-possible-alternative-to-swift-amid-the-rapid-growth-of-blockchain-and-digital-currencies\">allowed<\/a> that Russia could have an alternative to the SWIFT cross-border payments system, driven by the rapid development of digital currencies and blockchain.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bank of Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cbdcs-could-rival-swift-says-bank-of-russia\">believe<\/a> that central bank digital currencies could compete with SWIFT.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrencies will, in time, be actively used in international settlements, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1138,27],"class_list":["post-44013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-opinions","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44015,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44013\/revisions\/44015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}